Cheer up! Shinobi's a cleaver guy, but that doesn't mean he's the only one who can share in the fun.

United We Fight has, for the past several months, kept an updated log of character names affiliated with the so-called thief tax. These names are on our ban list in order to prevent unwanted intrusion. Names are being added daily (currently, we have over 60 names). As long as United We Fight is targeted by this tax, we will happily provide these names to any guild leader whose guild is currently targeted.

Shinobi, et al., are perfectly within their right in attempting to exact this tax. Likewise, Atlantic guilds are within their right to resist.

PM or ICQ 449-310-493. Guild leaders only, please.

P.S. If you're wondering how Shinobi and Oblivion hear you every time you speak near a felucca bank, PM me for pix.

We only have to ban one toon to ban the whole account. Moreover, disguise kits will not hide your true names on a guild roster. Lastly, not even Oblivion has enough money to buy name change tokens for 60 characters.

However, there is still time for you to grant UWF immunity: no photos are names have been released. Last chance.

P.S. Keep in mind, all of the people on this list can be targeted in fel without giving murder counts.

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LOL this is hilarious but seriously having seen Shins vendor and the spoils some of you haven't even noticed missing... I really think the mill a month is a better choice but that's just me... Hes getting alot more out of you guys then he would if you just paid up haha and your giving him something to do =)

We only have to ban one toon to ban the whole account. Moreover, disguise kits will not hide your true names on a guild roster. Lastly, not even Oblivion has enough money to buy name change tokens for 60 characters.

However, there is still time for you to grant UWF immunity: no photos are names have been released. Last chance.

P.S. Keep in mind, all of the people on this list can be targeted in fel without giving murder counts.

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Lol, first of all, you've banned like 5 of us, at max, from the castle. It only takes one thief to do the job 10 times if he/she wants.

If you guys are doing this much to prevent thieves, how is it that we already have multiple thieves waiting in the guild, some of which have been there for weeks. It honestly isn't that hard, lol. All i have to do is say the word and you guys lose another 20mil. Don't believe me? Good...keep it that way.

And as for the Crystal Thief, show everyone who PMs you. I've already taken it above and beyond that room. The room is old news in comparison to the new methods, lol.

Since Shinobi originally was targeting guilds over 100 members, then later lowered the bar to 50, and now UO.Com guild search is not working, how do they know who to target anymore? UWF, LLTS, Hot/Heat are obvious, but what about those closer to the line?

An ODE member was given a book a while back, and she literally laughed in their face at Luna Stables. We haven't heard a word since...

He xfered all the way to Pacific to try and steal something from me.. I let him think he was going to steal it but failed : /

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Kaladan...lol. Actually, i was cross-shard stealing. I had gone to Catskills, Baja, then to Pacific. When i got to Pacific, the majority of YOUR guild members HIRED me to steal the item. They all worked together to try and make the plan work. Even though it didn't work out, it proves that you need to watch your back due to you being a greedy, terrible GM. It's pretty sad when your own guild members plot against you with a thief.

We only have to ban one toon to ban the whole account. Moreover, disguise kits will not hide your true names on a guild roster. Lastly, not even Oblivion has enough money to buy name change tokens for 60 characters.

However, there is still time for you to grant UWF immunity: no photos are names have been released. Last chance.

P.S. Keep in mind, all of the people on this list can be targeted in fel without giving murder counts.

Yible was in Luna selling his very rare, unique event scroll titled "An Experimental Necromancy Scroll Marked: Vas Us Corp" since Monday night. A thief, who's name i'll keep from mentioning until someone inevitably blurts it out, decided to attempt to steal it. He joined the guild that Yible had joined the day before, ACEs. He ended up stealing the scroll from Yible while in ACEs. This was actually the thief's FIRST steal ever...pretty good first steal considering the scroll goes for at least 80mil, lol.

This thief wasn't in P0O yet, but he had been planning on joining when he was ready. I asked him how many members were in ACEs, since the UO guild search is broken and i can't check rosters. He said, as far as he could tell, there were at least 50 active members. I then decided to talk to them about the thief tax.

I met up with Epicone, who admitted he'd gladly pay the 1mil a month if it had been a day earlier. He kept telling me that the tax is worthless to his guild now that this scroll was stolen. For god knows how long, he was telling me "HOW COME YOU DIDN'T OFFER THE TAX TO US A DAY AGO?" I had to repeat myself 500000 times, saying that i cannot tell the future and had no idea the scroll was going to be stolen. This thief acted on his own accord, and stole an item for himself. I didn't send him into ACEs to get it, it was his own move, and a very good one.

Epicone was saying if the thief returns the scroll, he'd pay a year of the thief tax up front. First of all, as i told him countless times, i can't (and won't) ask this thief to return an item that he stole. Secondly, 80mil for the thief compared to 12mil for the guild...yeah not gonna happen.

So ACEs is pissed that i couldn't tell the future and foresee this steal coming. They were fine with paying the thief tax, but now that they've lost 80mil the thief tax is "useless" to them. This was BEFORE the thief tax was even implemented. Imagine what's gonna happen to them now that they've refused, lol.

I don't understand why guilds let their anger get in the way of common sense. Regardless, my original plan was that guilds would refuse to pay the taxes, giving us a reason to infiltrate them. I liked the guys in ACEs though, and was hoping i wouldn't have to send thieves in. Oh well.

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